Strange goings on in England. From the Huffington Post: Intelligence officials reportedly smashed hard drives in the basement of the Guardian headquarters, threatening the paper with legal action over the Edward Snowden intelligence leaks, and telling the paper’s editor: “You’ve had your fun, now we want the stuff back.”
David and Glenn – The British Government is scared shitless of the man on the right
This is scary stuff. Especially coupled with the incident the other day where they detained Glenn Greenwald’s boyfriend, David Miranda, who was flying back home to Brazil, and harassed him for 9 hours.
This might sound like a bit of false equivalence, because on the one hand you’ve got the stormtroopers barging into your office, smashing up all your stuff while you look on helplessly, and threatening the shit out of you, and on the other hand you’ve got the guards at the airport being a bit heavy handed, as they have tended to do for the past decade and a bit. Except it was more than that. And the two incidents, taken together, show a pattern of deliberate intimidation.
This is out of line. This is outrageously and disproportionately out of line. When somebody reacts in such an outrageously out of line way to somebody that has some information on them, there’s an obvious assumption: that they’re scared.
Obviously, somewhere in Glenn Greenwald’s treasure trove of documents, there is something Her Majesty’s Government does not want revealed.
Was Diana really bumped off by her mother-in-law?
Was the London Bombing an inside job? What in the world would make them this paranoid?
Is there a perfectly logical, and rather boring, explanation for Stonehenge?
Are crop circles really, honest to God, proof of extraterrestrials?
Was Elizabeth I really a man?
Is Hogwarts real, and at the start of each new Prime Minister’s term, a little man jumps out of a painting and fills him in on all of the evil that’s afoot in the world of magic?
It would have to be something major like that, to justify this rather hysterical attempt at muzzling the press.
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